Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 04/12/2009 2:45:24 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON — President Obama came to office promising swift and comprehensive action to combat global climate change, and the topic remains a surefire applause line in his speeches here and abroad.
Yet the administration has taken a cautious and rather passive role on the issue, proclaiming broad goals while remaining aloof from details of climate legislation now in Congress.
The president’s budget initially included roughly $650 billion in revenue over 10 years from a cap-and-trade emissions plan that he wants adopted. But the administration, while insisting that its health care initiative be protected, did not fight to keep cap-and-trade in the budget resolutions that Congress passed last week, and it wound up in neither the House’s version nor the Senate’s.
Overseas, American officials are telling their counterparts that they need time to gauge the American public’s appetite for an ambitious carbon reduction scheme before leading any international effort.
Has the administration scaled back its global-warming goals, at least for this year, or is it engaged in sophisticated misdirection?
Maybe some of both. While addressing climate change appears to be slipping down the president’s list of priorities for the year, he is holding in reserve a powerful club to regulate carbon dioxide emissions through executive authority.
That club takes the form of Environmental Protection Agency regulation of the gases blamed for the warming of the planet, an authority granted the agency by the Supreme Court’s reading of the Clean Air Act. Administration officials consistently say they would much prefer that Congress write new legislation to pre-empt the E.P.A. regulatory power, but they are clearly holding it in reserve as a prod to reluctant lawmakers and recalcitrant industries and as evidence of good faith to other nations...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
One would hope that the FULL PAGE Ad by the Cato institute in the WaPo and the LA Times would have had some kind of a “Scientific” effect upon those who have Harvard Degrees and can handle Scientific Measurements.
Measurements like.....IT FRIGGIN COOLER NOW since 1998, DUFUS !!
Get a GRIP BHOle !!
They are just keeping their powder dry, they will try to sneak this in at an opportune moment, likely through the EPA.
Cap and Trade is corporate theft and in turn theft from every taxpayer in America.
Well, if there is *one thing* that made a difference — it was this...
And if you or any other FReeper only see *one thing* — it has to be this one.
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It’s one thing to gripe and complain about these things and disagree with it, but it’s quite *another* to convince your friends and neighbors and relatives and coworkers...
THEREFORE..., it’s also absolutely necessary for people to know the information in the following documentary. If there were simply *one* video that you could see and/or show people you know... this would be the *one*...
The following is an *excellent* video documentary on the so-called “Global Warming” I would recommend it to all FReepers. It’s a very well-made documentary.
“The Great Global Warming Swindle”
If you want to download it, via a BitTorrent site (using a BitTorrent client), you can get it at the following link.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3635222/The_Great_Global_Warming_Swindle
[this is a high-quality copy, of about a gigabyte in size...]
It’s worth seeing and having for relatives, friends, neighbors and coworkers to see.
Also, see it online here...
http://www.moviesfoundonline.com/great_global_warming_swindle.php
[this one is considerably lower quality, is a flash video and viewable online, of course...]
Buy it here...
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[this one would be the very highest quality version, on a DVD disk, of several gigabytes in size...]
Didn’t Obama’s handlers say they would put all the controversial stuff in Conference Reports??
If Cap and Trade becomes either law or a EPA bureaucratic mandate, the N Y Times would be one of the first businesses to flip belly up for not paying its electric bill.
sophisticated misdirection
Only the NYT could praise the POTUS lying about a major policy issue as 'sophisticated misdirection'. For 230 years, the way our Republic has dealt with contentious policy issues is through frank and open debate. Now in the era of Obama, sneaking policies through would not withstand the scrutiny of open debate is 'sophisticated misdirection'.
In Panama, de Lessups basically killed 20,000 workers and officials by stubbornly insisting on a sea-level canal, and by ignoring the technical experts and engineers. This is Obama, I think. It can be done because he says it can be done, and NO ONE has ever really told this guy "no."
He doesn’t need the cover of ‘climate change’ any more to ram down socialism, govt expansion and multi trillion dollar spending plans. He already has the full support of Congress on everything.
With a little luck there will not be a Zero friendly Congress soon and he can spend days talking to himself like the fool he is only WITH the potential damage level much lower.
He did the same thing with the abomination of a stimulus bill, which neither he nor anybody else read prior to his signing it.
Some executive. All he does is give Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid carte blanche to do whatever they and their radical leftist majorities want to do, and then he basically signs it without getting involved in the details or even reading it.
The guy is the emptiest empty suit I have ever heard of. They ought to give out a bust of him as the annual Peter Principle award, if there is such a thing. If there isn't they ought to start, and he should be the first to win it.
“The president’s budget initially included roughly $650 billion in revenue over 10 years from a cap-and-trade emissions plan that he wants adopted. But the administration, while insisting that its health care initiative be protected, did not fight to keep cap-and-trade in the budget resolutions that Congress passed last week, and it wound up in neither the House’s version nor the Senate’s.”
WELCOME GOOD NEWS. The fact is that this idea had HUGE economic pain for ZERO environmental gain - even on top of the fact that global warming is an over-hyped non-crisis.
Your view is correct - “This idiotic SCOTUS decision is as bad as Dred Scott.” - this ruling is based on a bald-faced lie: That sea level is already impacted by CO2 and that local CO2 use could/would impact it.
But it is also true that SCOTUS only opened the door to EPA regulations by fiat, they didnt force it. Obama’s EPA could attempt it even without a SCOTUS green light. Alas, the only REAL corrective is a clear Congressional law revision. That wont happen while global-warming-freamongering fools like Pelosi run the House.
Probably wants to use it as a shakedown tool on industry.
Give generous to democrats and treat unions right, maybe we will let you slide.
President Obama came to office promising swift and comprehensive action to combat global climate change, and the topic remains a surefire applause line in his speeches here and abroad. Yet the administration has taken a cautious and rather passive role on the issue, proclaiming broad goals while remaining aloof from details of climate legislation now in Congress. The president's budget initially included roughly $650 billion in revenue over 10 years from a cap-and-trade emissions plan that he wants adopted. But the administration... did not fight to keep cap-and-trade in the budget resolutions that Congress passed last week, and it wound up in neither the House's version nor the Senate's. Overseas, American officials are telling their counterparts that they need time to gauge the American public's appetite for an ambitious carbon reduction scheme before leading any international effort. Has the administration scaled back its global-warming goals, at least for this year, or is it engaged in sophisticated misdirection?"The energy crisis is the moral equivalent of war." -- Jimmy Carter
Obama may seem to be backing away on cap and trade a bit, but what he is really doing is voting present because while Obama was over in Europe a group of over twenty Democrats joined Republicans in the Senate to pass a rule, requiring at least 60 votes in the Senate to pass any cap and trade tax.
So, it’s done for now. It’s on to new things, like packing Texas with illegals to turn it blue and get rid of the the right to work legislation. Watch for all right to work states to be flooded with illegals.
Yellow fever?
hussein is posing...he will not give up on his desire to screw america’s energy consumption. just because he isn’t shoving it hard and fast now doesn’t mean he is “cautious”.
He is biding his time, laying low, doing the easter egg roll and the “i’m an episcopalian” shuffle, etc. all the while he waits...and in the meantime, his sycophant media and cultists do his dirty work for him.
Bingo.
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